So this was the first one – and I think I’m going to get a bit better as I go on! It’s a big thing. But at that time I was completely parachuted into it. They sent the script out to me and I had to learn a fair bit of it on the flight to Kuala Lumpur and Heathrow. I was actually on set 10 days after I came back from New Zealand, having learned I‘d got the part a week before. I think she’s considered the definitive Marple, and I have to say I think she probably was.” So when you got the part did you start reading the books furiously?
I’m thrilled to follow Geraldine, who’s a very fine actress, but I think we all bow the knee to Joan Hickson.
They had things for years!” Who’s your favourite ever Marple actress? People then weren’t like we are now you know, going out to Top Shop, getting something and then chucking it away. “Yes, well I’m getting a new tweed suit made because I wanted her to look as though she hasn’t changed much from when she was at school, with the school blazer and the shirt and the sensible shoes.
That’s how I see her.” Will your Miss Marple still be in tweed? And she finds that she’s well ahead of everybody else – and I think that’s a bit of a turn-on. I think the only excitement she gets is when she gets on these cases. I do think she’s quite a reserved person – a little shy and very much a product of her own generation, having lived through two World Wars. “I love a bit of gossip and chat, but I’ve always been an actress who plays what’s on the page.
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